Worldwide location of units
Direct reduction

Figure 7 shows two important facts.

• Old industrialized countries

  They are hardly involved in the industrial development of these processes, even though, paradoxically, most of them originate from studies carried out in these regions (table 5).

• Developing countries

  On the other hand, they produced a total of over 43 Mt of reduced iron ore, and this production is strongly growing and concentrated (table 6).

  These two facts are closely related to the point detailed in paragraph